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CFC How Standing Can Make or Break Certification - (TRANSCRIPT)

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Class actions are on the rise. Is your business ready to protect itself? Hi, I'm Jason Tompkins, a member of Balch's Consumer Finance Compliance and Defense Practice. Debt collectors are frequent targets of class actions...more

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Seventh Circuit reverses lower court’s FDCPA case, holding plaintiff lacked standing

On March 21, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed a district court judgment in a case involving statutory damages under the FDCPA for lack of injury. The court asserted that statutory damages alone do...more

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Court Rules Eviction Proceedings are Not Debt Collection under FDCPA

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The United States Court for the Western District of Virginia recently granted a foreclosure firm’s motion to dismiss on the grounds that the firm’s representation of a lender did not violate the Fair Debt Collection Practices...more

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CFPB Brings String of Enforcement Actions to Round Out 2023

In December, the CFPB brought a series of three separate enforcement actions against several financial services companies alleging a range of violations of federal consumer protections laws....more

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Real Property, Financial Services, & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending February 7, 2020

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Real Property Update - Fraudulent Transfer: Real property that was worth less than mortgage encumbering it was not an asset per the plain language of section 726.102(2) and, therefore, could not support fraudulent transfer...more

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Real Property, Financial Services, & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending June 28, 2019

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Real Property Update - Foreclosure / Res Judicata: res judicata did not apply where later foreclosure action was based on different period of default than the prior action on same loan - Bullock v. Bayview Loan Servicing,...more

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Real Property, Financial Services, & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending March 8, 2019

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Real Property Update - Lis Pendens: trial court erred by not discharging lis pendens concerning real property because defendant did not grant an interest in the property, and plaintiff's claims did not allege requisite fair...more

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Real Property, Financial Services, & Title Insurance Update: Week Ending March 2, 2018

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REAL PROPERTY UPDATE - Foreclosure/Standing: borrower's standing arguments failed because they were based on notion that note changed hands after it was delivered to World Savings Bank in 2007, when in fact the note...more

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